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Lawyer for Plaintiffs in Coca-Cola Bias Suit Has Impressive Record.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2000 by Grantham, Russell
Apr. 12--If you're going up against a corporate Goliath like Coca-Cola Co., some observers say Willie Gary might be a guy you'd want at your side.
The flamboyant Florida lawyer rose from migrant farm worker's son to multimillionaire by winning civil verdicts of up to $500 million against large companies on behalf of accident victims, patients and small businesses.
Gary, 52, is described as a crack litigator who uses the lilting delivery and simple, parablelike phrases of a country preacher to make his points. He's expected to rely on those techniques in representing several of the plaintiffs in the racial discrimination case against Coca-Cola Co.
He won his first personal injury case in 1975, a year after he started his firm in Stuart, Fla....
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